Server Blocked by Cisco Umbrella / Open DNS
Posted: Mar 22, 2018
Hi Aidan,
And others as effected.
It was about the 16th or 17th of March, I forget at what time, that my access to the GrassGames, Solitaire 3D, Intelligence, scoreboard was blocked by an update failure, due to passage through the first hop DNS server syd16 being blocked by Cisco Umbrella / Open dns purportedly because resident malware was found either on this server or on the next hop.
This blocked access was cleared around 1600 Australian eastern daylight saving time, Thursday 22/03/2018, indicated by a sudden return of accessibility to the scoreboard which had been previously blocked, with normal access and updating following.
This appears to be a completely new type of malware spread management by Open dns / Cisco that both surprised and interfered with, to me, ONLY access to the GrassGames platform and no other as all my other internet activity was not effected.
It would be nice to know firstly, if others were similarly effected, and secondly, how and who fixed the problem thus allowing things to go back to normal.
Heres hoping I was not the only one effected.
tmno2
Terry
And others as effected.
It was about the 16th or 17th of March, I forget at what time, that my access to the GrassGames, Solitaire 3D, Intelligence, scoreboard was blocked by an update failure, due to passage through the first hop DNS server syd16 being blocked by Cisco Umbrella / Open dns purportedly because resident malware was found either on this server or on the next hop.
This blocked access was cleared around 1600 Australian eastern daylight saving time, Thursday 22/03/2018, indicated by a sudden return of accessibility to the scoreboard which had been previously blocked, with normal access and updating following.
This appears to be a completely new type of malware spread management by Open dns / Cisco that both surprised and interfered with, to me, ONLY access to the GrassGames platform and no other as all my other internet activity was not effected.
It would be nice to know firstly, if others were similarly effected, and secondly, how and who fixed the problem thus allowing things to go back to normal.
Heres hoping I was not the only one effected.
tmno2
Terry